SoFlo: THE MELTING NEWS (2#) -

American newspapers, which are experiencing an advertising downturn, are getting together in consortiums in an attempt to increases revenues from the Internet.

McClatchy is involved in a Yahoo arrangement, but Yahoo has been having its own problems lately. And McClatchy is very late in pursuing this avenue.

I am saddened by what has happened to Yahoo, which has gone through a series of changes bringing increasing and unwieldy prolixity to it.

Will networking together lift the entire group? [k.li]

# Detroit newspapers end home delivery except on Thursday, Friday and Sunday, their most lucrative days. This could happen in Broward, too.

The two English-language newspapers here are not going to prosper if there aren't enough area residents who can read English well enough to understand a newspaper.

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